Fisherman I think Kenneth Gergen explains it excellently in the video above. The bottle in itself is not anything. It is only something in relation to how it's constructed for various purposes. Strip things of all contexts and webs of meaning and nothing can be said about them. True for a bottle, the earth or anything. It's not so much that the phrase "the earth is a sphere" may be wrong, but that it only makes sense within a context, And other statements about the same object may make sense under different constructions.
slimboyfat
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
Kenneth Gergen explaining why constructionism is world changing, and why a bottle is not aimply a bottle. Likely to excite or make you want to pull your hair out depending.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
Never a JW I can say what books influenced me and gave me an initially favourable view of poststructuralism and its impact.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Postmodernism-Historians-INF-Callum-Brown/dp/0582506042/
Earlier edition of this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invitation-Social-Construction-Kenneth-Gergen/dp/1446296482/
The latter book in particular argues for a strong constructionist conception of truth to which scientific discourse is not immune.
Then there is The Order of Things by Foucault and Archaeology of Knowledge, Mythologies by Roland Barthes and Contingency, Irony and Solidarity by Richard Rorty, How to Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
What do the 20th century philosophical schools have done to improve our world or our understanding of it? Will they matter in the future?
Poststructuralism challenged essentialism in all its forms is the main one.
Pragmatism challenged the idea that the pursuit of truth and platonic forms should be the goal.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
We could do a Skype conference
What happened to the dastardly dog?
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
Your statement that OutLaw's friend is imaginary, is that a fact or an opinion? Since you have posted threads declaring the importance of this distinction.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
I don't know about the broader context, but in this exchange between Cofty and OutLaw it seems to me the insults began with the phrase "imaginary buddy", not before or after. So it's a bit rich for Cofty to pin the blame on OutLaw.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
You're always searching for progress, is that the Whig in you?
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
To your point about context. Let me explain what I perceive to be the context.
What I see is someone who is committed to a materialist conception of the world vocally telling JWs and former JWs that they should conceive of the world in the same way. Only ignorance can lead to religious beliefs or deviation from a thoroughly materialist conception of reality.
I tend to think it's worth pointing out there are other ways of making sense of the world. And that while we can be fairly confident of many things (the shape of the earth and evolution) we should be humble enough to admit we could always be wrong.
And I think the worm eye view is a valid question. What you got against worms? How about a serious answer.
For Christians God defines truth.
For enlightenment materialists the human mind defines truth.
For postmodernists perspective defines truth.
Pragmatists ask why do we need to define truth anyway?
I prefer the latter options.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty insbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.
charlatanism of the highest order.
.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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slimboyfat
Well it's come to something when an "imaginary" friend can list the obvious reasons for not taking the video seriously that somehow managed to pass you by.